King Crow

THE GUARDIAN - "A beguiling mix of anomie and ornithology.This novel is brilliant.' DAVID PEACE. " A brilliant novel. One of the best debuts I have read in years." Paul Cooper is an outsider. When he looks at people he wonders what bird they are. He finds making friends difficult especially when he has to move from school to school, so he obsesses about ornithology until he meets Ashley... An offbeat and fascinating take on the eternal triangle, this debut novel from the Bradford-based playwright mixes intense emotion with ornithology. Outsider Paul sees everyone as birds and finds making friends difficult. Yet, when he is thrown together in a journey to the Lakes with Ashley, who is tough, good-looking and has an abundance of street cred, they form an unlikely alliance. A bizarre relationship is made even more difficult when a girl appears on the scene. Soon things begin to fall apart and their road trip makes national headlines for all the wrong reasons. Paul Cooper is an outsider. When he looks at people he wonders what bird they are. He finds making friends difficult especially when he has to move from school to school, so he obsesses about ornithology until he meets Ashley. Ashley is everything Cooper isn't